Why One Woman Gave $100 Bills to Strangers

October 17, 2014 7:06 PM

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A few years ago a doctor in Portland, Oregon, began going about the city quietly giving a $100 bill to one person each day. Jill Ginsberg didn't know any of the people to whom she handed this money. It simply seemed to her that they needed it -- and that she needed to give it away.

Dr. Ginsberg suffered from a chronic fear that she would someday run out of money. She wanted to try something radical to cure it.